Quotes
Past Newsletters

May/June 08

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."
  —Denis Waitley: Author and productivity

Mar/Apr 08
" Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you."     - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Jan/Feb 08
"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice"-   Shakespeare

Dec 07
" First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Oct 07
"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork" - Pearl Bailey

Sept 07
The bitterest tears shed over graves, are for words unsaid and deeds left undone.

Aug 07
"Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour". - Stephen Leacock.

July  07
" He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat."   — Robert Estabrook: Washington Post editor, correspondent.

June 07
"Change your thought and you change your world". - Norman Vincent Peale

April 07
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
-George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
-From the website www.anunreasonableman.com

Mar 07
" You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."  - Beverly Sills

Jan 07
"To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart".

Dec 2006
"True success is more than just making a dollar- it's about making a difference, it's about making the world a better place."
The goal of this site is to make a small difference to connect people and to promote excellence and to promote great leadership.

Nov 2006
" Make your life a mission- not an intermission. "

Sept 2006
"One cannot get through life without pain... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us."
- Bernie Siegel

July 2006
"The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing."   - Michael E. Gerber

June 2006
"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever".
Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04

May 2006
"Nothing great was every achieved without enthusiasm". - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mar 2006
"Committing yourself to trying to accomplish a goal, is very different from committing yourself to accomplishing a goal."

Feb 2006
"Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow"- Robert Kiyosaki

Dec 2005
"A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball."  Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)

Oct 2005
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose"         - Robert Byrne

Aug 2005
"The future depends on what we do in the present". Mahtma Ghandi

June 2005
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare".   
- Japanese Proverb

April 2005
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."  - Theodore Roosevelt

Feb 2005
"Individual commitment to a group effort; that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."  - Vince Lombardi
 

Dec 2004
"There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life" - Sister Mary Rose McGeady , Children's advocate

Oct 2004
"Stand with anybody that stands right.  Stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he is wrong".  -Abraham Lincoln

Aug 2004
" The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or by cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities, but by men who can dream of things that never were."  President John Kennedy

June 2004
" I get up every day determined to change the world and have one hell of a good time."  E.B. White

Mar 2004
"The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse." - Thomas Edison

Feb 2004
"A journey is always better when it is shared.  Growth is never an individualistic pursuit, it is produced through relationships and community." - From Rick Warren's book "The Purpose Driven Life" 

Jan 2004
"There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life". 

Dec 2003
"The successful man has enthusiasm: Good work is never done in cold blood, heat is needed to forge anything.  Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart."  -A.B. Zu Tavern

Aug 2003
“To live without deadlines is to live an inefficient, unorganized life, drifting with the breeze of impulse on the fickle wave of moods.  We set deadlines because they help us accomplish the essentials-they discipline our use of time."…excerpt from "Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life" By Charles Swindoll".

June 2003
It’s a funny thing about life.  If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

May 2003
"To accomplish great things, you only need to do little things with great love"- Mother Theresa

April 2003
"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things"  - Frank Clark

Mar 2003
" If there is a wound, we must try to heal it.  If there is someone whose pain we can cure, we must find them.  If God have chosen that we should survive while others have died, it should be for a reason"- From the movie: Captain Correli's Mandelin

Feb 2003
"We cannot become what we need to be, by staying what we are." - Max Depree. One aspect of good leadership is creating positive change. Without change there can be no improvement.

Jan 2003
"It is much worse to have no vision than to have no sight"- Helen Keller.   The Scripture  says  " A nation with no vision, will perish."  I pray the this network will be based on principles of excellence, character and integrity.